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THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at upcoming TV highlights.
From drama and comedy, to factual and reality TV, we’ll bring you some of the shows to watch out for from both traditional broadcasters and the main streaming services.
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The BBC has pinned some big expectations on This Is Going to Hurt, a comedy drama starring Ben Whishaw about the lives of junior doctors.
The six-part series is based on the book of the same name by Adam McKay, who wrote about his time during medical training in the NHS.
It’s perhaps a bit reductive to call it a British Scrubs, as This Is Going to Hurt also tries to make a political point about the health service too, but the comparisons are there.
The second episode is on tonight after debuted last week to positive reviews.
When’s it on? Tonight at 9pm on BBC Two
Home of the Year is back on Tuesday and we're so happy we could cry! Looks like we're not the only ones! 🥰️
— RTÉ (@rte) February 13, 2022
Tuesdays at 8.30pm on @rteone | #HomeOfTheYear pic.twitter.com/ABeZ48HKZ7
Ireland’s factory line of property porn kicks back into gear this week with the return of Home of the Year.
The premise sees three judges visit three homes each week and mark them out of ten as the owners give details of their renovations and decorations.
The show is less ‘grand’ than Grand Designs and tries to incorporate some lower budgets but cheap doesn’t really exist in the Irish market so just enjoy the gaffs on show.
Judges Hugh Wallace and Amanda Bone are back again with new judge Sara Cosgrave. They’ll all run the rule over 21 houses over eight weeks to decide the winner.
When’s it on? Tonight at 8.30pm on RTÉ One
The Ballycotton Sessions
— Ballycotton (@BallycottonIRE) January 29, 2022
Coming Soon to RTÉ2
Showcasing some of the best of Irish in music, in one of Ireland’s newest venues Sea Church | https://t.co/1suLGFGa5t pic.twitter.com/6TuLciaSEz
There’s a new RTÉ series that seeks to build on the runaway success of Other Voices with another church playing host to some of Ireland’s best music.
The Ballycotton Sessions from the newly renovated Sea Church in Co Cork sees Louise Duffy introduce and interview some of the country’s hottest acts.
The eight-episode series will feature artists including: The Academic, Robert Grace, Damien Dempsey, Wallis Bird, J Yellow L, Saint Sister, Jack L and The Coronas.
When’s it on? Thursday at 11pm on RTÉ 2
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How about people not leave beaches strewn with half eaten sandwiches and other rubbish for seagulls to feast on. No wonder they think they can get handy grub from people.
This is it. They’re as smart as a dog an as easily domesticated by free food.
it wouldn’t take a genius to feed them properly for filling a bin.
Maybe if idiots put there food in a bin ..The poor birds wouldn’t bother them.
I’ve tackled a few aggressive birds in my time.
Horrible little shits are really coming alive the last week or two. The young grey ones with their whistly screech are awful, we are often woken by the tap tap of one pecking on our skylight. Very tempting to get some kind of air rifle at them
What they need to do is introduce Anti-Seagull Behaviour Orders, or ASBOs for short.
Shoot the feckers, there’s way too many of them anyway.
No there is not too many. Populations declining & actually threatened in Ireland
get yourself to howth on a sunny day my man!
Ah but are the thousands of littering Irish not the problem? Instead of the evolved scavenger doing what it evolved to do?
Birds of prey are declining rapidly, but seagulls? Come on, seriously, wake up. They’re everywhere.
This is from UK but relevant here. Simple fact is gulls populations are in serious decline with herring & great black baxked gulls both red listed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/9533420/Seagulls-invade-cities-because-of-collapse-of-fishing-and-rise-in-recycling-food.html
all the natural predators of seagulls are gone now thanks to us. look at what happened to the passenger pigeon in the states or myxomatosis with rabbits. when you mess with mother nature it has repercussions.
The COMMON GULL no such thing as a Seagull (although the term is commonly used so it may as well be accepted and only needs to be officially acknowledged, which would save so much grief but I digress) anyway, the gull do have a natural predator and it’s US, but in the UK they are a protected species (I don’t know about here), I think it was because people were eating them to extinction and their eggs make great custard (em allegedly). So it is a problem of their own making……. no pity whatsoever.
America is the natural predator of the COMMON GULL??
I saw a documentary on this in the 60s, think it was called the birds, it didn’t end well, we must round up the trouble makers at once and send them to Greece, as an additional punitive clause in the bailout package.
ALL the sand eels and mackerel sprat are no more due to the pollution of our seas , I noticed that all the seaweed on the east coast is black from pollution. The gulls are starving and taking it out on us dirty humans.
Cull the flying rats!
Prefer a seagull shitting on me from above and robbing the food from my kids hands than this Cameron chap
Too many Seagulls, and not enough recipes
They’ll probably fight them on the beaches…
250000 to research seagulls! What will it possibly tell you that common sense doesn’t.
Some are cheeky, shoot them.
Not all seagulls are cheeky. Some are intelligent and friendly.
http://jrnl.ie/2221490
Rule Brittania
It’d be a real quandary for the posters here if this site had a poll: Who would you like to see die more, seagulls or people floating in rafts in the Mediterranean?
David Cameron best friend is Senator Ted O Sullivan as seagulls have lost the run of themselves
Gay marriage and now this !!
We should all just pitch fork it up. Grab your torches people were going gill hunting.
Really. seagulls are getting out of hand! Really!
There were seagulls in Yorkshire??? Has Yorkshire a coastline??
yes.
Sorry!!! I was thinking of West Yorkshire wedged between Cumbria and North Yorkshire!! Yorkshire is like Tipperary with the different Ridings!! Stunning coastline I might add!!
No part of West Yorkshire is anywhere near Cumbria.
I think you might find the South eastern section of Cumbria is within the Yorkshire Dales National park and borders Yorkshire!! :)
pigeons are the real problem, horrible birds
You wank them seagulls
angry birds
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